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S'està carregant… Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (edició 2018)de Hans Rosling (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. For a book about statistics, this wasn’t boring. It’s engaging. While I definitely agree we’re constantly inundated with bad news (it’s attention-grabbing and networks need advertisers’ money) about the world, the attitude taken in this book is so nonchalant. Like, yeah, very few kids are dying in droves these days. Let’s pat ourselves on the back! There are reasons like colonization, corrupt governments, low innovation, etc why some countries are in the state they are in, but the book mostly skirts past that (it acknowledges this more toward the end). Rosling notes things are improving. He gives an analogy about a premature baby in an incubator, which I thought was fitting. Yes, the baby is premature, but if their health is improving, that’s a good turn in the right direction. The main takeaway of the book is an increase in education, sex education, and income helps lower the population. When people (read: women) have more money and education, they tend to have fewer children, so they can better care for them. With more income, countries can bounce back quicker after natural disasters, and their citizens have a better quality of life by each generation. I also like the idea of dividing different countries by income levels too. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget how far we have come from the days of high child mortality and other unfortunate events. Maybe this is a reminder that the world isn’t completely hopeless. Read this for Introduction to Business Statistics. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective, from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don't know what we don't know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn't mean there aren't real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most."-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Just a very well written book peppered with personal anecdotes from Dr. Rosling as well as plenty of facts and figures. ( )